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was proud of having been once in the service of so celebrated a 

 botanist. He was in possession of a few anecdotes about Mr. 

 Collinsou, and Mr. Salisbury, who lived at Mill Hill after it was 

 left by the son of his employer. This is all I know, about this 

 famous amateur. I have only seen a man who had seen him, 

 and had lived with him." The daughter-in-law of Mr. Collin- 

 son^s gardener, now an aged but very intelligent person, had 

 often heard her late husband's father speak of his early master. 

 She was the only person in Mill Hill, so far as we could hear, 

 who knew anything about Mr. Peter Collinson, or who had ever 

 heard his name in connection with Mill Hill. 



The estate formerly owned and occupied by him is the site of 

 the Protestant Dissenters' Grammar-school, which has been es- 

 tablished nearly half a century. 



In a very few short, short years, every memorial of Mr. Collin- 

 son's reputation will have disappeared; his very name will be utterly 

 forgotten in the obscure hamlet celebrated as the scene of his 

 floriculturai and arboricultural triumphs ! 



Sic transit botanicorum gloria, — Nothing lasts for ever, not 

 even botanical fame. Zeta. 



The Forests and Gardens of South India. By Hugh Cleghorn, 

 M.D., F.L.S. London : W. H. Allen and Co. 



This valuable work, on the forests and gardens of South India, 

 treats chiefly on the commercial value of timber, its cultivation 

 and perservation, and is mainly a series of Ileports made to 

 Government by the conservators, inspectors, and other officials, 

 extending over a period of four years, viz. from 1857 to 1860 

 inclusive. There are also numerous Reports from overseers, col- 

 lectors, and others, acting under the authority and by the direc- 

 tion of the Conservator. 



In times anterior to the British rule, teak, blackwood, rose- 

 wood, and saudal-Avood, were rigidly protected, like some trees 

 in Scotland, where the law permitted the landlord to punish 



